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...“I am very honoured to perform in Trafalgar Square,” says Chahat Ali. “It’s a big thing to do at a young age.” Is he nervous? “No,” he says with a smile....
...As factions prepare for the battle to succeed the ageing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime’s future is increasingly being shaped by its armed forces and hardliners....
...The last music I downloaded was a circus theme, because I’m all about clowning at the moment, but I listen to a lot of Persian music....
...Ali AbdaalThank you so much for having me. [MUSIC PLAYING] Isabel BerwickPutting joy at the centre of your work is such a lovely idea....
...I also have two cats, Bambi and Archie, that I love and adore. Risk or caution, which has defined your life more?Risk....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] HSBC reported an 80 per cent drop in profits last quarter. The bank took a big hit in China at the end of last year, and it’s not the only western lender that’s struggling there....
...Miles JohnsonIn 2018, Paul breaks a big story. And it’s not about the murderers, but it’s about the victim. Ulysse EllianI found out that Ali Motamed was not Ali Motamed the electrician....
...Renunciation of the world and its subsequent teachings has been big business since the Middle Ages, when Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe became bywords for asceticism....
...With Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, she owns the big screen too. ★★★★☆ In cinemas now...
...The line between criminal activity and state backed enterprise, between big business and gangsters, it’s become fuzzier....
...Now, either I can try and deal with a cat, in which case I’ll get reported to the Cat Defence League, or I have to lift the cat up, and he or she, because there are three of them, will sit on my shoulder...
...Omyo Cho’s “Barrel Eyes”, a video and VR work, imagines a future where people’s memories can be transmitted into others’ lives, inviting viewers to follow a computerised big cat through a surreal “memorial...
...“I’ll do anything that involves music… even just making mix tapes or making radio shows or being in music videos. Really, it’s a primal thing.” It is, he says ruefully, the career that got away....
...“Inside, it had something of Walter Sickert’s old music hall paintings.”...
...The last music I downloaded was David Bowie’s “Lazarus”. It was used on a TV show I was watching recently, so now I keep playing it while I work. I’m drawn more to sad, depressing music usually....
...Whether Joe Biden is the kind of person that he likes to associate with, because I would predict this: if Joe Biden enters Ohio, Sherrod Brown is going to fly out of here like a scared cat, right?...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] EY picked a new leader this week. Janet Truncale is the first woman to lead a Big Four firm, and she’s taking over at a rocky time for EY....
...Lucy FisherWell, let’s not forget as well one of my favourite moments: him in that leotard, pretending to be a cat drinking milk out of the cupped hands of an actress on Celebrity Big Brother....
...In the run-up to the big weekend, the Terme di Traiano gardens by the Colosseum will be transformed into La Pride Croisette, with daily music, arts events, debates and drag shows....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] It’s for interest payments. Big debt, big deficits and rising interest rates are putting pressure on the US government’s finances....
...The first song he played was “Here Comes the Sun”; the rest was dance music so we could bounce and sway in our puffy scooter suits....
...When I heard about this, I first started to see what Ali Motamed’s death might reveal about the transformation of international organised crime. Because it raised a big question....
...Authorities ordered raids on US groups like Cat Vision and Bain & Company earlier this year....
...Machine learning is already used in internet search engines, in email filters to detect spam, in music and video streaming services to make personalised recommendations, in banking software to detect unusual...
...It houses numerous abandoned cats, rescued from conflict zones in Ukraine by the charity that he set up after the 2022 invasion....
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